Staff Platform Engineer-Developer Experience

Summary

Join Shakepay's Platform team as a Staff Platform Engineer and empower developers by enhancing their experience. You will drive improvements in engineering velocity, reliability, and quality. This hands-on role involves building tools, leading initiatives, and collaborating with engineers to create a seamless development process. You will architect and implement foundational tools, identify and lead high-impact initiatives, and mentor senior engineers. The ideal candidate possesses 8+ years of software development experience and a deep understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and modern developer workflows. Shakepay offers competitive compensation, stock options, comprehensive health benefits, remote work options, learning and development budget, generous time off, parental leave top-up, and a home office setup.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience in a Developer Experience, Platform, or DevOps role
• Proven ability to design and implement developer tooling, automation frameworks, and internal platforms that improve engineering velocity
• Deep architectural knowledge of CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure as code (IaC), and modern developer workflows—emphasising writing high-quality code
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to work across the stack (e.g., backend services, build systems, IDE integrations)
• Experience with incident management and on-call rotations, ensuring a culture of operational excellence and reliability
• Passion for removing friction in the development process and writing code that enables other engineers to ship faster and more confidently
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Drive technical vision and strategy for developer experience, influencing multiple teams and systems
• Architect and implement foundational tools that scale Shakepay’s engineering productivity and reliability
• Identify and lead high-impact initiatives to streamline the developer workflow, improving DORA and other key engineering metrics
• Act as a mentor and thought leader, elevating the engineering culture and coaching senior engineers
• Participate in and help improve the on-call process, ensuring sustainable and effective incident response practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with technologies like Kubernetes, SQS, Datadog, AWS Cloud (Aurora, EKS, VPC, Lambdas), PostgreSQL, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and Node.js
• Background in building FinTech infrastructure or understanding the unique challenges in this space
• Passion for improving internal developer documentation and knowledge sharing
• Familiarity with Bitcoin and excitement to learn more
• A curated folder of Safe-for-Work reaction memes to keep the team laughing

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Health benefits from day 1
• Remote-friendly
• Learning and development: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth
• Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus
• Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks
• Home office setup: A MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses
• Salary in bitcoin option
• Team and company offsites